I don’t understand how one night a guy looked at the stars and said that if you draw a line between certain stars you can see a lion. And also were they chosen at random?
In: Planetary Science
Most people when looking at the stars would see some shapes. What shapes, which stars are grouped together and the interpretation varies from culture to culture. For example Chinese people traditionally divided the sky into different areas than in the Greco-Roman tradition, on which the modern astronomical names are based.
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